Improvement in bedstead-joints



` tirnt L @fitte LEWIS BRADFORD, OF PLYMOUTH, SELF AND NATHANIEL H.

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 HIM-v MORT-ON, OF SAME PLACE. i

Letters Patent No. 109,799, dated December 6, 1870. Y

MPROVEMENT IN BEDSTEAD-JOINTS.

The Sched-.zie referred to in thele- Letters Patent and making part of the same.

tenon, and of a thin mortise madein the post, through which moitise an iron pin passes, upon which the hook .of the mctai plate rests.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective View, showin g the rail-andpost joint.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a part lof the rail.

Figure 3 is a view'of the post showing the thin mortise and pin.

Figure 4 is a vertical section through the center of the rail and'A post.

' General Description.

The post A and rail B may be made inany desira-` ble style and nish.

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purpose set forth.

The rail B has inserted in itsl end a metallic plate,

This plate fills a tliin Inortise made in the end of the rail for that purpose, and is securedby the pins L and M.

The projecting part of t-le plate 0 is formed as shown in tig.1 2, the part l e forming an inclined hook that acts on `the rea-r ot the piu D in the post, and serves as a wedge to draw the end of the rail snugly against the post. l

,The post has a'thin mort-isc, h k, of sufficient thickness to admit of the entrance ofthe plate (l. v

The piu D passes through the'post and enters the mortise in such a position that the part rl c .ot' the plate C will hook onto it.

f, I donot claim the use of the hook alone; but

I do claim as my invention- The joint A B, when the same is made by inserting a plate, C, made as described, in the raii, and connecting the same with the mortise h t and pin D in the post A, substantially 'las described,-and for the LEWIS Gr.A BRADFORD.

Witnesses v FRANK G. PARKER,

JAS. L. CONANT. 

